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Joy Clausen thought she had everything – a college education, a loving family, and her dream job working as a dolphin trainer. However, everything changed when she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. For most people, a cancer diagnosis would be devastating, but Clausen is not most people. S...

Lauren Conrad first made her reality TV breakout in 2004 on the hit MTV reality series Laguna Beach. After graduating high school and moving to Los Angeles, Lauren starred in her own reality show on MTV, The Hills. The Hills followed Lauren as she began her life in Hollywood where she was going to c...

Earlier this year, teen star Demi Lovato made the brave and courageous decision to enter treatment for an eating disorder and issues with cutting. These are issues that Demi had been dealing with since she was eight years old and long before she ever entered Hollywood. In an interview after the conc...

“Soul Surfer” tells the true and inspiring story of professional surfing champion, Bethany Hamilton. The movie has an all star cast including Anna Sophia Robb, who plays Bethany, Helen Hunt, who plays Bethany’s mom, Carrie Underwood, who plays Bethany’s youth leader, and Dennis Quaid, who ...

At 7:00 P.M, most of our days are starting to wind down but for Melissa Shouse, an R.N as Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, her day is just beginning. Melissa works the night shift at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles in the Cardiothoracic Intensive care unit where she takes care of some of the hos...

Interview with world champion gymnast
Q: In 2007, you were a member of the U.S world championship team that won a gold medal. What was it like to be on that team and win a gold medal?
A: I would say that the whole experience was magical. I put in years and months of good hard work and it felt...

Samantha Peszek is 19 years old and already has accomplished more than many will in a lifetime. She began gymnastics in 1993 and this was the start of an outstanding career. In 2004, at just 12 years old, she became the youngest member of the U.S junior national team and she began competing for the ...

I never knew what was wrong with me. For as long as I could remember I’d had pain and popping in my bones. Ever since I was a little girl, it had felt like bones in my arms didn’t fit together. My pediatrician always told me that I was fine.
When I was 11 the pain became chronic. It started a...

For as long as Hailey Connor could remember; gymnastics had been a part of her life. When Hailey was 4 years old, her mom enrolled her in gymnastics to contain her energy. Her mom wasn’t sure how it would turn out at first, but Hailey ended up loving gymnastics. Hailey’s coaches quickly noticed ...

May 6, 2009, marked the 100th day that President Obama has been in office. For many Americans, the last 100 days have had a new feeling in America. A feeling of hope and Change. Hope that we are finally on the right track as a country, and change from previous Presidents. Here are some of the many t...

On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. Watching the inauguration, for the first time in a long time, Americans felt a new feeling of hope and change. Hope that once again our country would thrive, and change that we would finally be able to heal...

On October 29, 1929, America had what is now known as ‘Black Thursday’. Black Thursday was when the stock market crashed. After black Thursday, America’s economy that was already having trouble, started getting worse and worse. People couldn’t pay their loans from banks, people were losing t...

Last Summer, the price of gasoline was in the $4.00 a gallon range. During that time, Americans were starting to become committed to Energy Independence. They were buying Hybrids, and finding new ways to go Green. Many Americans also started seeing T. Boone Pickens on Television.
T. Boone Pickens...

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